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31 U.S. Code § 732. Personnel management system
(a)
The Comptroller General shall maintain a personnel management system. The Comptroller General may prescribe a regulation about the system only after notice and opportunity for public comment. A reprisal or threat of reprisal may not be made against an officer or employee of the Government Accountability Office because of comments on a proposed regulation about the system.
(b) The personnel management system shall—
(1)
include the principles of section 2301(b) of title 5;
(2)
prohibit personnel practices prohibited under section 2302(b) of title 5;
(3)
prohibit political activities prohibited under subchapter III of chapter 73 of title 5;
(4)
ensure that officers and employees of the Office are appointed, promoted, and assigned only on the basis of merit and fitness, but without regard to those provisions of title 5 governing appointments and other personnel actions in the competitive service;
(5)
give a preference to an individual eligible for a preference in the executive branch of the United States Government in a way and to an extent consistent with a preference given an individual in the executive branch; and
(6)
provide that the Comptroller General shall fix the basic pay of officers and employees of the Office not fixed by law, consistent with section 5301 of title 5, except as provided under subsection (c)(3) of this section and section 733(a)(3)(B) of this title.
(c) Under the personnel management system—
(1)
the Comptroller General shall publish a schedule of basic pay rates for officers and employees of the Office;
(2)
except as provided in clause (4) of this subsection and section 733(a)(3)(A) of this title, the highest basic pay rate under the pay schedule may not be more than the rate for level III of the Executive Level, except that the total amount of cash compensation in any year shall be subject to the limitations provided under section 5307(a)(1) of title 5;